Title Pathologies of modern space : empty space, urban anxiety, and the recovery of the public self / Kathryn Milun

Published New York : Routledge, [2007] ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 325 pages) : illustrations Contents Preface: Empty space as a structure of feeling in the urban commons -- Introduction: Agoraphobia, a discovery mode for the study of empty space as a structure of feeling in the urban commons -- The disappearance of public space in psychiatric descriptions of agoraphobia : Dr. Westphal (1872) and Dr. Boyd (1991) -- The nineteenth-century urban commons as a spatial puzzle -- The nineteenth-century urban commons as a gendered puzzle -- The twentieth-century urban commons : the urban freeway -- The twentieth-century urban commons : the shopping center, laboratory of behaviorism -- The twentieth-century urban commons : neoliberal universes of nonrecognition -- Alternative treatments for the twenty-first-century urban commons : horror vacui, solvitur ambulando? -- Conclusion Summary Pathologies of Modern Space traces the rise of agoraphobia and ties its astonishing growth to the emergence of urban modernity. In contrast to traditional medical conceptions of the disorder, Kathryn Milun shows that this anxiety is closely related to the emergence of ""empty urban space"": homogenous space, such as malls and parking lots, stripped of memory and tactile features. Pathologies of Modern Space is a compelling cultural analysis of the history of medical treatments for agoraphobia and what they can tell us about the normative expectations for the public self in Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-309) and index Notes Print version record Subject Agoraphobia -- Social aspects Agoraphobia -- Environmental aspects Public spaces. Agoraphobia. City planning. Agoraphobia City Planning History, 19th Century History, 20th Century History, 21st Century urban planning. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. City planning Agoraphobia Public spaces Öffentlicher Raum Raumwahrnehmung Agoraphobie Platzgestaltung Pleinvrees. Openbare ruimte. Sociale aspecten. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781135927387 1135927383 9780203943441 0203943449

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